Sovietism

American  

[soh-vee-i-tiz-uhm] / ˈsoʊ vi ɪˌtɪz əm /

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) a soviet system of government.

2. (often lowercase) the practices and principles of a soviet government, especially as it implies communism.

3. a characteristic, mannerism, phrase, etc., expressive of or identifiable with the ideology of the Soviet Union.

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Other Word Forms

• Sovietist noun

Etymology

Origin of Sovietism

First recorded in 1915–20; soviet + -ism

Example Sentences

“We had to break with any kind of Sovietism,” Ukrainian military expert SvatyslavStetsenko told the Moscow Times Thursday.

From Washington Times

They were ploughed through by decades of Sovietism.

From Slate

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascismby Bernard Shaw What she got was The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism, one of the great, passionate and indignant expositions of how social injustice destroys human lives.

From The Guardian

Dr. Sun Yat-sen holds that the Communistic order or even the Soviet System cannot actually be introduced into China, because there do not exist here the conditions for the successful establishment of either Communism or Sovietism.

From Project Gutenberg

The embalmed corpses of Dr. Sun and Nikolai Lenin are preserved in their glass-topped cases near Peking and at Moscow; and are periodically adored as the elements from which sprang, respectively, Chinese Nationalism and Russian Sovietism.

From Time Magazine Archive